By Peter Bell

Tracking your time on Solo Projects

Posted At : April 20, 2009 2:32 PM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Time Management, Project Management, Agile Development
A lot of agile teams don't track actual time (in hours) at all. When you're working on your own and juggling multiple projects, however, it can make sense to gather "just enough" time tracking data. Here's why . . . Any input on whether/how you track time much appreciated . . .

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Some More Thoughts on Unfuddled

Posted At : December 23, 2007 11:32 PM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Project Management, Agile Development
Well, I've been playing with Unfuddled for a while now as I work on tasks, add notebooks for provisional user stories. I've got a few more things for my wishlist . . .

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Trying Unfuddle

Posted At : December 23, 2007 7:38 PM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Project Management, Agile Development
I'm in the market for some project management software. I need something to manage a single dev (me) on small 100-300 hour projects with stories, time tracking, some kind of widget or IDE integration, a simple wiki or cms for sharing notes and svn integration (see my previous article for the detailed requirements.) I'm not sure Unfuddled is exactly what I'm looking for. I don't like the lack of stories (I can only roll up tasks by milestones so I need to treat each story as a milestone which is not really ideal), but it is there, it looks like it should work, and it's quick to get started with. And the corporate version which includes time tracking and unlimited projects is $49/mo, so that's about where I wanted to be financially. Anyhow, I decided to give it a go for this project. Here's my experience . . .

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Selecting Project Management Software

Posted At : December 23, 2007 5:08 PM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Project Management, Agile Development
These days I'm starting to take on more consulting projects so in addition to the generated sites which typically only take a few man hours, I can get to play with some more interesting/custom projects which typically run 100-300 man hours (if you have any fun ones you might want some help with next year, feel free to comment and I'll email you offline!). It is great because I can still use the SPL to create well architected apps more quickly than hand coding, but I also get to write some more custom functionality and to spend the time to create a really great solution. However, I need some project management software to help, so I did a quick review of some of the alternatives - from Trac and LightHouse to Mingle and Rally Software. Here's how it turned out . . .

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